NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday May 30 [Scroll down for full week’s compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF   A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on […]

  BASEBALL MAVERICK/INNOVATOR VEECK INTEGRATED MLB’S AMERICAN LEAGUE BY SIGNING LARRY DOBY IN 1947 A visionary who spotted corporate threat to American culture a half-century ago   By David Maril   The technology changes but one thing stays the same:  too many people submit meekly to the forces of corporate marketing. As we experience another […]

  RAVENS’ RB ADDRESSES NEWS MEDIA, REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS DURING BRIEF TV APPEARANCE Refers at Friday press conference to alleged assault of then-fiancée in Atlantic City, as ‘The Incident’   Just days after cutting a plea deal that allows him to avoid prosecution — and possible jail time — for knocking out his then-fiancée […]

  KALIOPE PARTHEMOS PAID $172K, REPLACING MAN WHO GOT MORE DESPITE DOING IDENTICAL WORK 4th chief of staff for mayor in as many years CITY OFFICIALS ARE ‘GROSSLY OVERPAID’   By Alan Z. Forman   These days whenever a woman gets paid less than a man for doing the same job, questions of sexual discrimination […]

  BARBARA WALTERS RETIRES; HER CHATTY INTERVIEWS DOMINATED TELEVISION The Baltimore Sun’s takeover of Maryland’s print media is bad news for journalism NEW BROOKS ROBINSON BIOGRAPHY FAILS TO COME THROUGH IN CLUTCH Umpires overruled by technology   By David Maril   While wondering if there’s still room on over-the-air network television for lengthy, sit-down interviews, […]